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District of Columbia

How's District of Columbia?

Yearly figures for District of Columbia, from public data, with each one's source and rank one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

Right now in District of Columbia

As of the site's last build: the drought map of October 20, 2026, the wildfire list of October 27, 2026 and stream gages on October 25, 2026. Every state.

Drought

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counties have some area in drought (D1 or worse); 0 mostly, and 0 have extreme or exceptional drought. A year ago, 1 had some.

US Drought Monitor, via waterdata.dev

Wildfires not yet out

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None reported here.

NIFC WFIGS, via wildfiredata.dev. A small fire can stay "not out" for weeks after it stops burning.

Rivers and streams

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gages ran lower than on the same day last year; 3 higher.

USGS daily mean flow, October 25, 2026 against October 25, 2025, via waterdata.dev. One year back is all the API keeps, so this is not a long-term normal.

District of Columbia year by year

Yearly figures for every state, latest complete year 2024 to 2025:jobs, wages and workplaces from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; presidential and House votes from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab; the carbon intensity of the state's power plants from the EPA's eGRID.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong statesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$2,479+4.8%+20.4%+46.2%Highest quartile1 of 53 states in 2025
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives741.6K jobs−2.4%+2.1%−0.3%Lowest quartile40 of 53 states in 2025
Business establishments2025 · workplaces covered by unemployment insurance, each location counted once51.3K establishments−1.8%+20.6%+34.9%Lowest quartile45 of 53 states in 2025
Unemployment rate2025 · by where people live; 2025 averages 11 months, as BLS does, since October was not collected6.3%+1.0 pts−1.7 pts−0.6 ptsHighest quartile1 of 52 states in 2025
Labor force2025 · residents working or looking for work412.5K people−0.2%+6.6%+8.1%Lowest quartile49 of 52 states in 2025

Presidential vote

IndicatorLatest4 yr8 yr12 yrAmong statesTrend
Presidential vote margin2024 · Republican minus Democratic share of all presidential votes castD+83.8R+2.9R+3.0D+0.2Lowest quartile51 of 51 states in 2024
Third-party and write-in share2024 · every presidential vote not for the Democratic or Republican candidate3.3% of votes+0.8 pts−1.8 pts+1.4 ptsHighest quartile6 of 51 states in 2024
Votes cast for president2024 · a count of votes, not turnout: there is no count of eligible voters here to divide by325.9K votes−5.4%+4.7%+10.9%Lowest quartile50 of 51 states in 2024

Electricity

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong statesTrend
Carbon intensity of electricity generated2024 · at the power plants in the state, combustion only; not the electricity used there158 g CO₂e/kWh–––Lowest quartile47 of 52 states in 2024

9 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among states" ranks District of Columbia against every state, DC and territory with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is District of Columbia and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.

1 counties in District of Columbia